From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2007-05-25T10:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: gem update

On 5/24/07, Jacquie Fan <trinity_lcx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,all I tried to do
>
> gem update --system in my windows XP box.
> then I've got
>
> Updating RubyGems...
> Need to update 18 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
> ..................
> complete
> Attempting remote update of rubygems-update
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
>     install directory
> #<Pathname:C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rub
> ygems-update-0.9.4> not absolute
>
> but I can see that rubygems-update-0.9.4 is there and is not empty!
>
> anybody has this problem before or has some idea about this problem?

You are not alone:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/252820?252516-252827

> Greatly appreciated!
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